2.
Enclosure 1.
To The Right Stonsurable
The Marquis of Ripon K. C. M. Gre
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
Respectfully Shewith
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The Aucuble Memorial of the Han Fook Company, lately carrying business at Victored in the bolony of as dealers in prepared Opium
Houghong
Your Memorialists were the grantees pour the
Colonial Government under the provisions of atte Prepared Opeium Ordinance 1891 of the sole privilege of preparing and selling prepared opum wution the kolory of Honghong for time years from the pot
1892 to the 26th Choruary 1695.
March
obtaining
In accordance with the conditions published in
Memorialists at the time
the Hongkong Government Gazette your I
of the grant of the opium Imonopoly deposited a sum of $85, 2000 in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in the
of the Colonial Ctreasurer as a,
name
a security for the due and
faithful observance and performance by ctueur of the several conditions upon which the grant
was made
at the time
your
Memorialisto tendered for monopoly the Chinese population of Hougtong 215, 17/8 and increasing
the
was estimated at as it did at the harmal rate the Chinese population in April 1894 was estimated at 229, bote.
At the beginning of May 1894 an epidemic disease known as
the bubonie plaque and edditical with the great plaque which visited London in the sixteenth century suddenly made tho
Such a disease had not been known in appearance in Hong Kong this Colony before and the dreadful mortality that took place amongs ninety per. cut of those seized dying of the dinase
· feeling of
of consternation and panic amought the inhabitants of Hougtong bulqual to anything that had previously buen huown
those attacked, over,
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